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  • ABOUT Alice McDermott

    Alice McDermott’s novels include Charming Billy (1998), Child of My Heart (2002), That Night (1987), At Weddings and Wakes (1992), and After This (2006), the latter three of which have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and elsewhere.

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  • ABOUT Donna Seaman

    Literary critic Donna Seaman writes primarily for Booklist, published in Chicago by the American Library Association, where she is an associate editor. She also writes for the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Kansas City Star, Bookforum, and Chicago Public Radio. Seaman has created the fiction anthology In Our Nature: Stories of Wildness. Her author interviews are collected in Writers on the Air: Conversations about Books and featured at the website Open Books Radio.

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There is more of our spirit in what we say about what has happened to us than in anything that simply happens to us.       

Click play to listen. Recorded on November 2, 2003.

Donna Seaman interviews Alice McDermott about her delicately insightful, family-centered novels, focusing on 2002’s Child of My Heart. McDermott illuminates methods of mimicking reality and contextualizing characters, why she can’t reread her published work, what it was like to work at a vanity press just out of college, her thoughts on the Irish Catholic families she frequently portrays on the page, and so much more.

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